Teaching Materials

This page provides links to teaching materials used in WIS. There are numerous photocopied articles relevant for WIS in the photocopy collection of the Precinct Library. These articles should now be listed under Hugh Willmott ( but some may still be listed under David Knights)

The materials listed below are up-dated periodically, not after each lecture.

To go to go to an inventory of materials used during Weeks 1-12 of Semester 1 click here

To go to an inventory of materials used during Weeks 1-8 of Semester 2 click here

Caution : If you wish to use or  quote the material on these pages when preparing coursework, be careful to acknowledge your sources fully by citing the website address.

Semester 1

Week 1 (Rationale and Outline)

Your Learning Experience( 2 slides)

Learning and Climbing (extract from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 5 Transparencies)

What Is WIS About? ( 6 Transparencies)

Management Lives - Course Textbook

    Book Cover

    Essay on book  : `Using Novels to Explore Work as Lived  Experience' by David Knights and Hugh Willmott

Week 2 (4 Key Concepts - Overview)

Four Key Concepts Diagram

Vic Meets Robyn (text from Nice Work)

4 Concepts Questions (Powerpoint transparencies)

Week 3 (Identity)

Identity

Having and Being

The Having Mode

The Being Mode

Having and Being in Daily Experience

Week 4 (Insecurity)

Insecurity - An Example from Nice Work

Insecurity - Social, Historical, Ontological

Postmodernnity and Insecurity

Stress, Anxiety, Insecurity at Work

Week 5 (Power and Inequality)

Lecture Overhead Transparencies on Power

Lecture Overhead Transparencies on Inequality

Power (and Subjectivity) and HRM

Week 6 - Reading Week

Week 7 (Teamwork)

Week 8 (Docudrama 1)

Week 9 (Docudrama 2)

Week 10 (Docudrama 3)

Week 11 (Management and Organization)

Action, Power, Levels and Process in Organizational Analysis - Commentary on Benson (1977)

Power at Work : Manufacturing Decisions

Week 12 (Review)

Semester 2

Week 1 (Freedom, Work and Organization)

Week 2 (Labour Process, Control and Resistance)

Week 3 (Exercise Session 1)

Week 4 (Culture and Symbolism in Organizations)

Week 5 (Exercise Session 2)

Week 6 (Gender and Consumption)

Week 7 (Exercise Session 3)

Week 8 (Managing the Human Resource/Review)

What about the Managers?

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